Pianist
Linda Holzer, professor of music, joined the faculty at
UALR in August of 1995. Dr. Holzer is an active soloist and chamber musician who has been heard
in concert
at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the New Orleans
Center for Creative Arts, New York Public Radio Station WNYC-FM, Noon
Time Concerts at St. Patrick's Cathedral in San Francisco, and as concerto
soloist with several orchestras.

An advocate
for contemporary music, she has participated in premieres
of pieces by composers such as Gwyneth Walker, William Bolcom, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, John Steinmetz, and Ladislav Kubik.

Linda Holzer has
performed in 29 states, as well as abroad in Europe (Bratislava,
Vienna),
and Asia (Hong Kong, and Qingdao,
China). She is featured on Podsafe
Music Network.
Additionally, she is a founding member of Mariposa with
violinist Sandra McDonald, assistant concert master of the Arkansas
Symphony Orchestra. Her teachers have included Leonard Mastrogiacomo
(a pupil of Rudolph Ganz), Donald Isaak (a pupil of Carl Friedberg),
Barbara Rowan (a pupil of Egon Petri), and Michael Zenge (a pupil
of Emil Danenberg). She studied with Nelita True and John Perry as
a scholarship student at the Southeastern
Music
Center. She holds the BMus degree in piano
performance from Northwestern University, the MM degree from UNC-Chapel
Hill, and the DMus degree from Florida State University. She was elected to membership in the honorary music society, Pi Kappa Lambda, as an undergraduate, and is an active member of several professional music organizations, including the College Music Society, and the Music Teachers National Association.

2014 Filmed world premiere concert performance of American composer Scott Robbins' 9-movement piano solo, Ritual Meditations, published online in the College Music Society's refereed journal, College Music Symposium, vol. 54

2013 Concert recording of pioneering African-American composer Florence Price's Sonata in E Minor selected for broadcast on Radio Arts Indonesia on the program “Music by Women Composers” hosted by Charles Conrad, and Radio Horizon 93.9 FM in Johannesburg, South Africa hosted by Dimitri Voudouris

2012 Recording on the Col legno label, "Ladislav Kubik: Chamber Music II" selected for broadcast on radio Klara Continuo (the Netherlands). Featured keyboard soloist on Czech composer Ladislav Kubik's orchestral tone poem, A Faun at Late Afternoon

2007 – 2009, National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, named chair of the Committee on the Pedagogy Student and the Young Professional, coordinator of pre-conference seminars on career development, effective teaching, and musical entrepreneurship

2006 Concert recordings Mariposa & Friends: Chamber Music Classics! and Of History and Hope selected for broadcast on NPR affiliate KLRE-FM on "Classical Arkansas" hosted by Deborah Imboden

2005 Recording on the Col legno label, "Ladislav Kubik: Chamber Music II" selected for broadcast on Sveriges Radio P2 (Sweden). Featured keyboard soloist on Czech composer Ladislav Kubik's orchestral tone poem, A Faun at Late Afternoon

2001 Arkansas State Music Teachers Association (ASMTA), awarded "College Music Teacher of the Year"

2000 AHSS Faculty Scholarship Award for research on Pulitzer prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, which led to the publication of an article on Zwilich's music in Piano & Keyboard magazine, and the performance of new piano solo and chamber music works by Zwilich.

Professional Achievements

Creative Activity/Research: Piano soloist and chamber musician; injury-preventive piano technique; piano music of the 20th and 21st Centuries, esp. American composers and women composers; career guidance for music majors; business and pedagogic practices of piano teachers; concert performance technology

Lecture-recitals, interest papers, workshops, research papers, and panel discussions at numerous conferences such as: College Music Society national and regional conferences, the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, the Network of Music Career Development Officers international conference, the US Distance Learning Association national conference, the UAMS Teaching with Technology Symposium, WIMBA national conference, the Arkansas State Music Teachers Association conference, Arkansas Music Educators Association state conference, Hendrix College Festival of Women Composers

Dr. Holzer's students have participated in summer music festivals and competitions such as the Eastern Music Festival, and the MTNA Collegiate Artist Piano Competition. They have gone on to graduate school, and careers as teachers, entrepreneurs, and performers, working in public and private schools and as independent music teachers and church musicians, as well as careers in the fields of law, business, medicine, and information technology.

Prior to her appointment
at UALR, Dr. Holzer served as an artist-in-residence for four seasons,
performing under the auspices of the North Carolina
Visiting Artist Program. She was profiled on "The
Piano Education Page" as an Artist/Educator in 1997.

Questions
on piano auditions at UALR? Please see the link
for prospective
students, or contact Dr. Holzer via e-mail at lrholzer@ualr.edu.
General information about piano study at UALR is available at the
Piano area
web site.